In recent months, business owners have spent millions of dollars making changes to their stores in Westwood, from renovating California Pizza Kitchen to building a new UPS Store to moving the apparel store 901Westwood.com to a larger space.
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Students hold town hall to address police brutality, draft demands
More than 100 individuals at a student-led town hall Thursday drafted a list of demands calling for the Los Angeles Police Department to patrol all communities in equal numbers and for university police to not carry any weapons. Students drafted several demands for LAPD, including that the agency say how it funds weapons and for […]
UCLA research project selected for Research Catalyst Award
Four UCLA-related research projects were named Wednesday as recipients of the President’s Research Catalysts Awards, a $10 million initiative by University of California President Janet Napolitano to promote research projects across UC campuses. The award recipients include UCLA assistant professor Sean Young, whose research project on using data in social media to answer questions of […]
Hundreds of dining hall lockers broken despite renovations
Josh Bayne spent 10 minutes standing in the rain outside Bruin Plate Tuesday night waiting for an open locker with his computer bag in hand. Dozens of lockers were left open along the walls. But as the crowd of wet, frustrated students milling around Bayne quickly discovered, none of the open lockers worked. “I take […]
UCLA investigates reports of bugs found in food at dining locations
Five students have said they found bugs in their food at dining locations at UCLA in recent weeks, posting photos of the incidents to the UCLA Class of 2018 Facebook page. Despite the reports, the UCLA Office of Environmental, Health and Safety found no serious health concerns in the dining halls after investigating the incidents, […]